Conservative conferences couldn't be more different from Labour and Liberal Democrat ones. For instance, when it comes to children's services, the types of issues that get raised in debates or at fringe meetings are poles apart.
It's becoming increasingly clear that one of Labour's big pushes at the next election will be its offer of affordable childcare for working mothers. And the Lib Dems pledged to build on Sure Start at their annual meeting.
Yet at the Conservative conference, the word childcare was hardly ever heard. Theresa May, shadow secretary of state for the family, mentioned it once in her speech, but not in the context of party policy. And this at a time when polls show that significantly more woman were considering voting Labour than Conservative.
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